102 Week 2 (Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution)

Clerical absenteeism was

• Priests taking attendance before church service

• Priests paying poorer priests a small sum to perform their sermons and duties while they became wealthy from the tithes or payments the community paid the Catholic Church

• Priests not being fluent in Latin and only being able to say services at mass rather than translate and explain the service to the community

• Priests not showing up to preach on Sundays

Who is the leading figure in the Protestant Reformation whose challenges to the Catholic Church led to the formation of the Protestant sects of the Christian faith?

• Albert of Mainz

• John the Baptist

• Hernan Cortez

• Martin Luther

Johan Tetzel sold indulgences which claimed to 

• free a soul from purgatory

• provide good luck

• predict when someone would die

• absolve a monk or nun for drunkenness

Before the Scientific Revolution, who was considered the authority on the nature of the universe

• ancient philosophers and 16th century scientists

• ancient philosophers/ ancient knowledge

• ancient philosophers and the Catholic Church

• the Catholic church

This man’s discovery of the moons of Venus and the fact that the moons of Venus did not orbit the earth provided proof of Copernicus’s sun-centered universe theory

• Johannes Kepler

• Hernan Cortes

• Galileo Galilei

• Johann Tetzel